Issue: November 2022
Saints and sinners
The dotty suggestion the Queen be canonised is an expression of a hope she will not be forgotten
Feelbad anthem
Liz Truss does indeed “move on out”
The state we’re in
Britain isn’t working any more
November: Letters to the Editor
Eco-disasters, mixed up cemeteries and maligned libertarians
Arsenic and old lace
Autumn arrives and nostalgia descends
The diary of Larry the Cat
Here came the new boss
Regathering the Russian lands: the rationale for Putin’s war in Ukraine
The president’s inflammatory rhetoric is informed by two centuries of Russian nationalist thought centring on a distrust of Europe and a mission to recover all the lands of “Ancient Rus”
How the world turns a blind eye to African slavery
Investigating the slave-owners of the Sahara, where more than 100,000 people were born into inherited captivity
Danny Lestrange: Eternal Columnist
From the immaturity of young adulthood to the immaturity of old age
Can science hold all the answers?
Revisiting the thinkers who challenged the scientific method’s claims to have a monopoly on the truth and offer privileged access to reality
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships